Greetings,
Can any of you recommend a good way to fix a broken thin section? I have one which broke, so I glued it back together with some locally available "super glue", and it held for some weeks. It was ok with being in the spring-loaded sample holder for our LA-ICP-MS for a number of sessions, and even survived being attached to the clamp and copper-tape attachment to the sample holder for the SEM, until we tried to take it off of that sample holder, when it separated upon the previous breaks. I tried re-gluing it, but on the second attempt the three pieces just came apart again when I set it into the spring loaded LA-ICP-MS sample holder. We would like to do further analysis of this sample in the laser lab, but I really don't want it coming apart in the holder, which could cause it to jam inside the machine, if the spring were to push one of the pieces up above the plane of the holder. Thank you for suggestions you may have.
Thanks,
--Riia
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Dr. Riia M. Chmielowski
Senior Research Engineer/Laboratory Manager
Laser-Ablation ICP-MS Laboratory, LTU
SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden
www.ltu.se/LaserICPMS
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Phone: +46 (0)920 492033
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http://ltu-se.academia.edu/RiiaChmielowski
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